I think it's more than possible, i think it's virtually inevitable. If you're familiar with the works of Ray Kurzweil he talk, in great detail, about some of the things you mentioned in your post. Through the use of Nanobots his belief is that eventualy technological intelligence will surpass that of man (the singularity he calls it) as this point the likelihood is that we will be able to do all sorts of things with nano tech at the core. potentially even restoring people to life with tiny strands of DNA, accentuating brains with nanobots. Curing diseases and even ageing and who knows what else. His work is really worth reading and his predictions have had a scary habit of coming true in the past. Great article by the way.
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I'm incredibly interested, I'm gonna look him up. thanks for mentioning this man
I wrote an article about Ray here: https://steemit.com/future/@mealhound/ray-kurzweil-predictions-for-the-future-of-technology
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ty @mealhound, and also for your recommendation regarding Ray Kurzweil. That sounds very interesting, let's see what I can find out about him and his ideas.
I would beg to differ, artificial intelligence will not surpass that of man because you cannot compare those two, you can only distinguish them. AI is different from human intelligence but not "better".
None of our current modern technologies in medicine are able to guarantee health or even immortality. We may have banned all kinds of diseases from the past but with changing conditions, environments and mental states they were just substituted with new kinds of illnesses and vulnerabilities. In the amount we find cures bacteria or viruses or mutations find ways to undergo that treatments. Both, physically and psychologically humankind is going to stay with dysfunctions. People will still get sick and die.
Sickness and age are not enemies but natural phenomena all living beings undergo.
Here is an interesting article I recommend to read:
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-myth-of-a-superhuman-ai/